Finster Dexter posted:

cjs: what's the solution for a CTO that works 16-20 hour days but does nothing but work on features/bugs that are all low-medium priority when everyone else is crunching to get high-priority bugs fixed because we were supposed to launch this terrible russian platform months ago.

note: this is a startup dev team of me, a junior dev, and CTO.

Osmosisch posted:

Protip: also start doing this if you aren't.

Sapozhnik posted:

It's OK to be whitespace?





Yeah I got nothing

Jabor posted:

it should be like nans where any operation that isn't explicitly checking for it just produces undefined

Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:

one nice thing about aws is they never turn stuff off. simpledb is still there for example. I’m fuckin tired of companies deciding that maintaining their poo poo isn’t strategic so you get to migrate or else

Finster Dexter posted:

c# rules python drools

Krankenstyle posted:

there was a script missing, so i wrote to ask them about it and i was told "oh that one is still in progress, here follows a manual procedure that i did some weeks ago" and its a page of words but i tried to suss it out & wrote a script that did it in like 30 lines of python and it works with the next script

so im like, that cant be it? youve been doing that poo poo manually for weeks?!

GWBBQ posted:

is there a definition of unsigned integer that i'm not aware of?

fritz posted:

they're the bad kind of moral degenerate

Sagacity posted:

code:

select * from children c where c.id in (select p.child1, p.child2, p.child3, p.child4, p.child5 from parent p where p.id = parent_id)

~declarative~

redleader posted:

nah, any half decent query planner will optimise this to an inner join (that is, of course, if this code actually worked like it looks like it should)

DELETE CASCADE posted:

For that 12 column join I would just create a view that does the union all into a single column like it should be and then just do all my queries on that view forever. Until someday seven years later that becomes a performance problem and it takes some sucker hours to figure out

Xarn posted:

Real talk, I actually use Python a lot for scripting and when I don't care for efficiency, and I am completely ok with the fact that my scripts need orders of magnitude more cycles than a proper code would.

At the same time, I make my living by writing software that needs high-throughput and already needs 70+ gigs of ram when using strongly typed ints that need only 4 bytes of memory, so yes, I am kinda sceptical of the "just 16 bytes overhead, who cares" approach.

Krankenstyle posted:

then stop

Illusive gently caress Man posted:

because my brain is broken and I enjoy writing c++ for regular everyday tasks

Phobeste posted:

I mean yeah matlab is great and a big part of that is the ide and the way it strikes a nice balance between being an ide and a repl and everything and plots are nice and the math works and is good but at this point I’d rather jump through several annoying hoops to get python

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

I wor


I once worked on a project for a third party that had an algorithm designed in matlab, and wanted us to port it to a C library. when they learned it would take a whole week, they spent a week trying to embed matlab on the target platform.

floatman posted:

Eh I don't know what to think already. I do agree with the points you said about what the purpose of queues should be, but nowadays after $JOB I'm just so jaded.
Like I'm starting to think that it's all fine and dandy to keep in mind "best practices" or theoretical good design and all that, but sometimes an anti pattern is necessary because if you leave the clowns to their own devices, you get poo poo like recursive CTE SQL queries for bad queue implementation or wrapping csvs in Json to be sent as XML strings.
It's not even good enough to reach the standard of bad. And most Devs here have Stockholm and they actually think everything is fine.

To put it this way I would have rather had a badly managed rabbitmq implementation to fix and debug rather than some idiot bespoke MSSQL server queue that one guy was so loving proud he did but didn't stay in the company long enough to see first hand the destruction it wrought

ThePeavstenator posted:

BORN TO DEPLOY

REPO IS A gently caress

PUSH EM ALL 1989

I AM DEVOPS MAN

410,757,864,530 MERGE CONFLICTS

Stringent posted:

basically you can suck it up and do it apple's way and suffer

gonadic io posted:

Anybody used goog's "container os"? It seems weird, basic only has kubectl and docker installed and with pretty much anything else you have to do "docker run busybox -- my-linux-util"

AWWNAW posted:

I cannot imagine what it must be like to work somewhere that forces you to use JavaScript and you just have to make the best of a bad situation. nobody should have to live like that

Beamed posted:

I don't think I've ever seen this particular defense of dynamic typing before but here we are.

Chalks posted:

i too struggle to understand where modern websites come from

fritz posted:

i write c, and while i can assure you that yes its nearly as bad as my posts, i dont ever want to touch the javascript again

Finster Dexter posted:

this whole discussion is moot because in 12-18 months webassm and Blazor will be taking over everything and all the js devs will be making GBS threads themselves at having to learn c# (which won't actually be that bad because c# is super easy to learn)

*this is my headcanon don't ruin it*

DELETE CASCADE posted:

C# would be cool except lol if you develop on Windows or deploy to windows or have to work with people who willingly do either

Symbolic Butt posted:

cjs: I hate c++ exceptions

akadajet posted:

Slurps Mad Rips posted:

“look in video game development we don’t have time for unit tests. if it looks like it works then it works”, my manager said as he hit “run” in visual studio 2010 and then refused to make eye contact with me as it immediately crashed from a pure virtual function exception.

Krankenstyle posted:

welp chardet thought one of my files was ISO-8859-2 (Eastern European) but its actually Windows-1252 with a bunch of Danish characters

UnicodeDammit to the rescue

code:

from bs4 import UnicodeDammit

def get_encoding(file):
	with open(file, 'rb') as f:
		dammit = UnicodeDammit(f.read(1024*500), ['utf-8', 'Windows-1252'])
		return dammit.original_encoding

mystes posted:

Do you mean "is there a python function to detect the encoding without explicitly calling read" or literally "is it possible to determine the encoding of a file without reading it"?

Blinkz0rz posted:

require a specific encoding and throw an error back to the user if it isn't that

file encoding is like time handling: not even once

fart_man_69 posted:

You may be right but I don't actually drink coffee so the situation is even worse than I made it seem at first. Just boulders (metaphorical) and agile meetings (real things that people insist on)

redleader posted:

c++ may be alright if you have a team of extremely competent 10x programmers, but it is certainly not a tool for the masses

gonadic io posted:

Ctpa: manually editing a few dozen cosmos entries to change some fields to lowercase because somebody thought that our system make sense and was case insensitive. It does not and is not.